A tweet which claims extreme weather events and linked deaths are not increasing because of climate change is FALSE.
Matthew M. Wielicki tweeted on 2 December 2022 that a climate emergency does not exist.
“There has been no increase in extreme weather events (see manuscript below) and less people die from climate related disasters today than ever before,” read the tweet.
The post links to a paper by Italian researchers who claim that while the climate crisis is real, it has not caused any extreme weather yet.
However, Wielicki’s claims are not backed up by scientific consensus.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found that “widespread and severe loss and damage to human and natural systems are being driven by human-induced climate changes increasing the frequency and/or intensity and/or duration of extreme weather events, including droughts, wildfires, terrestrial and marine heatwaves, cyclones.”
The IPCC report warns that 20 million people have already been displaced by extreme climatic events. It adds that climate change-induced “extreme climatic events have been observed in all inhabited regions” of the world. Extreme weather is affecting mental health, contributing to infectious disease outbreaks, and is negatively affecting economies.
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